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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.